January 22, 2026 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the news conference from Bills owner Terry Pegula where he addresses the firing of Sean McDermott and more, 49ers GM John Lynch saying that WR Brandon Aiyuk has played his last snap in San Fran, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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Speaker 1 (02:28):
So the post mortem on the whacking heard round the NFL.
They dropped the guillotine on you if you're Sean McDermott,
HyG on and that led to a hum dinger of
a day, a hum dinger of the day.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You can't handle the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Didn't see or hear about this, perhaps not. We taken
out of Western New York, where Bill's owner Terry Pegoula
is the talk of the town in the NFL, as
he did the thing that not many people do at
the time.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
They don't normally do it. So again, another.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Rich guy, aristocrat owns the Buffalo Bills, and he got
up on the podium with GM Brandon Bean and they
teamed up to deliver what can only be called a
hummed dinger of a news commerce to try to explain
why they fired head coach Sean McDermott.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And you'd say, pretty easy, pretty.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Easy to say, why you fired the guy because he
kept joking in the playoffs. But it was much deeper
than that. It was much deeper than that. They didn't
just explain the coaching change. They took a ride on
the wild side, and I love it so Pagola, I'll
give you some of the hits. It there was a lie,
but I'll give you some of this, Pagola said. The
owner of the Bill said he fired Sean McDermott because
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he felt the team hit the proverbial playoff wall after
seven straight trips to the playoffs without appearing in the
Super Bowl. Here is just to prove I'm not lying.
Here is Pegoula commenting on what I just said. Just
to prove I'm not a liar.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Take a list.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
My decision to bring in a new coach was based
on the results of our game in Denver. I know
we can do better, and I know we will get better.
I did not fire a coach based on a bad
officiating decision. If I can take you into that locker room,
I felt like we hit the proverbial playoff wall, year
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after year, thirteen seconds, missfield goals, the catch I just
sensed in that locker room, like, where do we go
from here?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wait, fire the coach. Come on, it's obvious fire the coach,
all right. So that was a big one, essentially said
the tone I got.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I watched this thing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It happened while I was sleeping that I watched it
on the YouTube, and it sounded like he just walked
any cyberyone upset, and so it's like, I'll fire.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
The coach, all right. So then we get to the
even better stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So the owner of the Bills, this guy, Terry Pagola,
He also talked about Keon Coleman. Now, this is a
big local issue in Buffalo because Coleman's not only a
wide receiver. The guy sucks, right, he's terrible. I think
his second round pick. The guy can't play, so everyone
knows the guy. Guys are so Pagola. This was actually
Brandon being the GM who was asked about Keon Coleman
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the selection. What went into all of that? And Pogola
actually stepped in the owner of the Buffalo Bills to
answer the question, take a listen.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Yeah, can I interrupt, I'll address the Keon situation. The
coaching staff pushed to draft Kon. I'm not saying Brandon
wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice.
That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice
of his coaching staff who felt strongly about the player.
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And he's taken, for some reason, heat over it and
not saying a word about it. But I'm here to
tell you the true story.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, I'm sure you are yes, all right, So there
you go. He said, Ah, it's the coaches. The owner
of the Bill said, it's the coaches. It's not my buddy,
My buddy Brandon Bean who got promoted. All right, so
that is a good jumping off point. Lot's unpacked. The
Bill's owner is getting absolutely cooked for this. It's been
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called just one of the most embarrassing things. The guy
has lost it. Al Davis had some of these back
in the day when he was obviously dead.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Now own the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So let us discuss the question Terry Pegoula getting killed
for what's being called a disaster class news conference in Buffalo.
People are saying he has damaged the Bill's brand?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So I've got director's cut, Mazzarella, sticks, and anchorman, and
we will combine all of these things together. And we
were going to make a trip over Niagara Falls, because
this felt like a trip over Niagara Phone.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It was pretty good. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I woke up to a bunch of text messages some people,
he did you see what the the Bill's owned to do?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
What do you do? You know?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I was like, I was kind of half half sleeping still,
and I picked up my phone. Oh my god, what
I wanted? Something good must have happened. And then yep, yep,
pretty good, pretty good. All right, So my first thought
on this to answer the question.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You know, people are saying that the Bill's brand has
been damaged. Is that how you see it? So the
answer is no.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Everyone who's clutching their pearls here and letting out a
primal screen because Terry Pagoula went off script.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh my god, the older talked. He said the thing
that you're.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Not supposed I mean, come on, listen, please, This didn't
damage the buff of the Bill's brain. In fact, I'll
be the contrarian here behind the microphone, and I will
say that this made it more compelling, like this is
must see TV, must hear radio. We finally got the
director's cut, not the Disney edit, not filtered. This was
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classic old guy philipbuster. We all hope to get old
enough so we just don't give an f anymore. You
get to a certain age, and you see this all
the time, you go out the restaurants or whatever, the
old guy that just doesn't give a crap, right and
just goes for it and says whatever the things that
polite society you're not supposed to say. You say when
you get to a certain age, because you figure, hey,
I got unlimited time left. I'm gonna enjoy myself. So
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Terry Pegoula was passionately defending the general manager of the
Buffalo Bills, this guy, Brandon Bean.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
As you heard there like a.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Proud dad at a little league game. My boy did
not want that draft pick. He did not want that turd,
did not want it. Meanwhile, the kids standing out in
the outfield, that's Keon Coleman out there catching strays like
it's duck season. And Coleman in the middle seat on
a cross country flight. Elbows on both sides, no arm reds,
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no leg room, nowhere to go.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You are trapped. You are trapped, and.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The owner is saying the owner of the Bills say yeah,
the coaches want the jam says nothing, of course, and
then the player's stuck holding the bag. Of course he
should hold his duffel bag because there's no way he
comes back to the Bills.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's it, And it's not that he didn't earn it.
Keon Coleman was not good at his job. He was
a healthy scratch. There was some behind the scenes issues
there multiple games, as I remember.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
So this is not a brand damage.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Though I wouldn't go that far. I think of it
like the old Mad TV back in the day. If
you remember that dysfunction junction, how do you function? It's
compelling dysfunction. That's the Bills, baby, and hey, it's good,
it's great people. Oh, the Bill's mafia. The fan base
is upset one. They sure they're upset because they keep
losing in the playoffs and they like McDermott. And they'll
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get over it once September comes around. They'll pick somebody
new in the draft and they'll hire a coach. We'll
say all the right and bull crap, and then everyone
will be back on the band and we get back
to September. Now, page two. Staying with the Bills, though,
so the questionaire, the owner Terry Pagool has said that
he's not going to tell the next Bill's coach it's
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super Bowl or bust, whoever that might be. They haven't
replaced Sean McDermott. But the owner is like, well, I'm
not gonna say it's super Bowl or bus. So the
question is why not?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Why not? All right?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And my response would be because some things in life
don't need to be said.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's kind of like when you get.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
On an airplane, you know, you don't tell the pilot, hey,
try not to crash the plane.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I mean, you don't need to say that, right, if.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You're going into the operating room, you don't tell the
search and try to get the right kidney.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Please.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You know, you don't know it's implied. This isn't a
starter job.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That we're not talking about going to Ikea and buying
a bookshelf and you're missing half the screws and the
Allen ranches bent and you're like, ah, crap, this thing
is already built. It's already built that The bills are
a frozen food delicacy.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Think about it like you're to Walmart and you got every.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Possible frozen food you could want, right, and so you
go through there. You look, they got the frozen vegetables.
You don't want to get a part of that. I
got some ice cream, but you know about that. So
then they've got some fries, some potatoes, some onion rings,
things like that. But then you see the mazzarella sticks.
You grab the mozzarella sticks, and that's buffalo buffaloes. The
mozzarella sticks. You don't cook them from scratch, they're already
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pre made. You just toss them in the air fryer
for five minutes. You don't screw that up. Boom, you
got mozzarella sticks. The Bills have an MVP quarterback. Granted
it was kind of a flimsy MVP, but they have
an MVP quarterback. Check that box. The roster that's been
nibbling among the top teams in the NFL for many.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Years now, so check that. And the clock, though, is ticking.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You got about two to four years, depending on how
this thing goes with Josh Allen, before the Bills start
coming due.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
After that, well after that it gets ugly, ugly with
a capitol you. So you're talking about roster.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Rot and bad vibes and all that stuff. So Pagola,
the owner here, he doesn't have to formally announce Super
Bowl or boss doesn't have to say that because it's
already tattooed on the job description. If you read the minutia,
the fine print there, you will see that that is
the way it is now. The last word here. So
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following the Buffalo Bluster, reports came out of Western New
York claiming that a I love this. A source close
to Josh Allen said that the Bills quarterback had faith
in the leadership of the team under the owner Terry
Pagoula and Brandon Bean and will take an active role,
an active role in participating in the upcoming head coaching
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interview process. So that was the way it was reported there,
and more likely than not, is Josh Allen calling one
of his buddies, a beat writer, texting him saying, I
gotta get some message out right now.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Can you help me out? Sure, I'll help you out.
Why not?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Question?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So, Josh Allen, if this report what is accurate? Josh
Allen is said to have quote faith in the Bills leadership.
Is this solid or shaky?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Right? So this is the word I will use.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
On This is diplomacy. This isn't necessarily believe. It's like
a hostage note written with a nice smiley face. You
wrote a little smiley face there on your hostage note.
You're talking about a guy that is the former MVP
who's playing the role in this chapter of the book
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as a statesman.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Because what else on God's green Earth is he gonna do?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Is he gonna act like Bill's mafia and flip a
table and light it on fire in Orchard Park and
jump on it? Is that what he's gonna do place
Josh Allen's camp. Everyone's dealing with this organizational whiplash and
I love it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It's great. I have no skin in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Not in Finally on Bill's Monster, Derek and Felexus and
the other people, we have their Bills fans in that part.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
We love. People in Buffalo love the show. It's great.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But in about five minutes, I'm using Mallard time. But
in about five minutes Bill's Mafia went from chest thumping
a playoff victory over you know, just feeling good, good
playoff vibes. They watched the whole thing tip over like
a drunk guy going out to get the mail on
a walking on his driveway to go down to get
the mail and slips and.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Falls and all that.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
They go from beating Jacksonville late on a wild wild
Card weekend, everyone's feeling all warm and fuzzy.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, it's great.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Then overtime roadkill in Denver late against the Broncos, splat
windshield wipers can't keep up with the mess, and Josh
Allen turns into Anchorman's Ron Burgundy, a glass case of emotion.
The owner walks into the locker room sees tears, panics,
hits the big bed, the big red button hat, a
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giant red button hits that and and wax the coach.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
And then you're like, wow, that has any quickly, right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So if Josh Allen hadn't cried, would you have kept
Sean mcderhatt. I think that that part of it is
it smells like manure to me. And I'll tell you why,
because the issue was they kept losing. It wasn't that
they got emotional. If anything, getting emotional would indicate that
they care about the coach, you would want to keep
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the coach, wouldn't that be the case, Like these guys
really love this guy and they felt bad. The other
thought I had was the players knew that if they
didn't win that game that Sean mcdertt was going to
be fired, and they were bummed out about that. And
it's kind of how I relate. I've worked here at
Fox Sports Radio pretty much my entire adult life. We've
had many people run the company, and every time the
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boss changes, you always get kind.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Of this weird feeling in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You're like, oh, crap, I might have to go work
somewhere else, you know, And and you just keep doing it.
But because every boss has their favorites, right, every boss,
no matter what the job is, whether it's I work
in radio, whatever your job is, well it was got
favorites like parents have favorite kids, you know, just the
way it is. And so you're always like, oh no,
you got a new boss is gonna come in. You're
not gonna like me, Oh crap, what am.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I gonna do? And all that stuff. But it is fascinating,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And then Josh Allen right now, you know the cartoon
bubble in my head. He's saying all the right things
right now, he's the Statesman. He's sweeping up the glass,
he's taping the bumper back on, and really, what choice
does he have? Josh Allen is the Buffalo bills. He
can't demo the building because he's still that's where he works.
You can't demo the building you work in. You're still inside.
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And in terms of the word faith, yeah, sure, it
feels less less like belief though, it's more like survival mode.
And it's not really solid.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Ground right now. It's gonna thin ice and we'll see
if the bill's higher. Here.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Some of the names that have been mentioned for that
Buffalo job are not the most exciting names.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
They don't get you all aroused there, they don't.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But man, what a mess. All right? It is the
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So our lead this hour.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We start out in northern California, fresh off getting their
lunch handed to them by the Seattle Seahawks and a
no show effort. The forty nine ers gave the state
of the team address Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch. The
star of the show would be John Lynch, The GM
there who confirmed that the Niners are about to decommission
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wide receiver Brandon Iuck this offseason. So if you didn't
see this or hear it, maybe not Lynch. He announced
that it's it's time, not quite yet, but in due time,
the winds of change will be blowing.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Let's go to the audio tape. Here's John Lynch. Take
a listen.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
You know the plan in terms of the transaction that
will come in due time. I think it's safe to
say that he that, you know, he's played his last
snap with the Niners. It's unfortunate situation that just went awry,
and I will look long and hard at you know,
what could have been done differently, but sometimes just doesn't
work out.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I think that this was this was a case where
that happened.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, so played his last snap with the Niners.
Will come and du time didn't work out. Blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Now keep in mind, this is
not just your run of the mill roster move like
this is like a lot of what this guy held
in during training camp in twenty twenty four and then
signed a four year contract for one hundred and twenty
million dollars Now you would think with that kind of
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extension you'd be putting on a happy face. This guy, no, no,
this is next level hutzba. He appeared in just seven
games before he had a big bowl of rice crispy
snap crackle pop, and then the injury. And so the
Niners now, finally they could have moved him even though
he didn't play this past season. They if he got
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to another team, he likely would have been able to play.
But they held on to him, and so now they're
gonna trade him or.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Who knows, release him. It's all a good jumping off points.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So let us discuss as you heard the Niners GM
there John Lynch saying that Brandon Ayuck has played his
last snap with the.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Forty nine ers. So where does he end up? Let's
play the speculation game.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
So I've got jim Nance, Mystery Machine, and Philly Pops,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we're
gonna make birthday cake with great frosting and milk is
what we're gonna make. That's what we're doing. Put those
things together. Yum yum to your tomb tumb So a
Brandon Auck is more than just damaged.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Goods. He is completely covered from head to toe with
moles and warts.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
He's got more warning labels on him than a bottle
of draino at this particular point. Now, he did the
Niners dirty. He did the Niners dirty, the whole a
wall thing and all that. And John Lynch, and some
of this is on the Niners. You got to know
your employees, right. They clearly misread the room. They thought
Brandon Ayuk had the fighting spirit, They thought he was
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a competitor. They thought he wanted to win, wanted to
play hard, wanted to do his job. Clearly he wasn't
all of those things. Otherwise you wouldn't be in this
particular situation. And so John Lynch got the Jim Nance
Breakfast special burnt toast is what he got. He got burned, burn,
baby burn. And does he even does the player even
want to play football? Or the question must be asked,
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is Brandon Ayuk looking for a team to go to
to bankroll his sabbatical so he can continue to make
a lot of money and do nothing. Now Brandon Iok
becomes the ultimate high end reclamation project. A lot of
people in the NFL that believe in the Father Flannagan mantra,
but he's got flashing warning labels that are that they're
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popping up everywhere. However, again I go back to the
NFL mantra, talent trumps all. It's the never give up
on talent thesis that the NFL runs by, and so
spinning the malor wheel of speculation for Brandon ayuk round
and round and round and round, big money, big money,
No Whomy's stop. All right, So you've got the Steelers,
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the Bills, and the Chiefs all lined up. It's like
speed dating at a dive bar, is what it is
at two in the morning before the bar closed. There's
no risk it, no biscuit. That was Bruce Arian's line
from back of the day. All of those teams, the Steelers, Bills,
and Chiefs obviously pop up on the malar wheel of speculation.
They are devoid of elite level playmakers at the wide
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receiver position. All of them are in the American Football Conference,
and all of them are at the point now where
they'd be willing to take a player who's tarnished and
he's got cooties like Brandon Aya because they're desperate, right,
They're desperate, and so they need the player, they need
a talent upgrade. You're willing to overlook things like people
that don't want to do their job.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Meanwhile, we stay in the Bay Area where forty nine
Ers GM. John Lynch also confirmed during the end of
season news conference that the team is going to investigate
the viral TikTok theory linking electromagnetic fields from a nearby
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electrical substation to the persistent injury problems. You might remember
in a previous episode we discussed this very topic.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And we pointed out that the science.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
On this has been done over the years because there's
people that just live near these substations and they think
that something's happening, and so they studied it and they
determined that they're and who knows whether you believe this
or not, but they determined that there was nothing there
there anyway, here's Lynch talking about the forty nine ers
investigating take a list.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
You have to look into everything, and so our guys
have been We've been reaching out to anyone and everyone
to see does a study exist rather than a guy
sticking an apparatus underneath the fence and by coming up
with a number that I have no idea what that means.
That's what we know exists. We've heard that debunked, you know,
So yes, we will look into it. We have and
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we'll always be cognizant of things. I know that a
lot of games have been won at this facility, you know,
since it opened. But yeah, we aren't going to turn
a blind eye. We'll look into everything.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Okay, So the question how likely, just between us, how
likely are the forty nine ers to find in a
smoking gun an injury smoking gun with the electromagnetic field conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
It popped up on social media.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So in the cartoon bubble above my head, on the
right side of my head, right you can't see because
it's radio, but above my head, John Lynch is out
there driving the mystery machine. He's sniffing around and right
around the electromagnetic field conspiracy like Scooby Dooby doo retrow.
(25:12):
Somebody get that man some Scooby snacks right now. Next,
they're gonna blame what. They're gonna blame our friend Andrea
the astrology insider. They're gonna say the reason the forty
nine ers keep getting hurt is because mercury is in retrograde.
They're gonna investigate that and then maybe after that the
moon phase pulled a hamstring.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Or something like that. This is a.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
First class ticket to Bakersville, is what this is. You've
got the low frequency EMF turning ligaments into what pulled pork?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Is that what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And so okay, delicious, put some barbecue sauce on. It
showed me the science. Of course, there is no science
to back this up. Zero zilch, not a bupkus, whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Word you want to eat.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's kind of like blaming the popcorn burning because of
the Wi Fi football has been a demolition derby. It's
car crashes with shoulder pads, and there's also this thing
called randomness and variance involved in it. And say, well
this wasn't great and we've had some injuries. That's the
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way the cookie crumbles. And people are looking desperately for
both engagement and to try to find a fall guy,
because you got to have a fall guy.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Very important to have a fall guy. So, like, I
know what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's not that these guys just are injury prone or
it's just bad luck. It's the substation man. Yeah, that's
the ticket, it's the substantion. Well, good luck here's the
other problem with this. Now I've pointed out that there's
some things that have been done over the year, peer
reviewed studies that have said that this.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Is not true.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
However, even if you think there is something there, Even
if there is something, don't you believe that the Niners
would be better off bearing it? Like Jimmy hoff if
you know who that is back in the day, this
would be Pandora's box by the bay Let's workshop.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
This right, what's in the box? What do you think
this means?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So if the Niners came out and said, you know what,
the players were right. The players were absolutely right. And
these gamma rays, that the what you might call it's
coming from the do hickey and it's causing these injuries.
So you open that box up and you have billboard
lawyers circling like seagulls when you drop a French fry
(27:35):
at the beach, right, they will be everywhere there is
There is no there there, And if there is a
there there, you can't admit it because then then you've
got some issues like that. Not the gamma ray thing,
not the Tampa Bay ray thing. It's just it's bad luck.
It's a violent sport. And then but you can put
the X Files music on if you want. If you're
into the X files, you know that'll show back in
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the day you put that.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
On, all right?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now, last word to fill out Alfia, we go where
the Eagles are having no luck getting an offensive coordinator
despite winning a Super Bowl a couple of years ago
and being a consistent playoff team. We are told the
Eagles have interviewed now former Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Naggi,
who was let go by Andy Reid for the offensive
(28:19):
coordinator vacancy in Philadelphia. Now Naggy exploring any kind of
a job he can get, as Andy Reid's replaced him
with Eric b Enemy and the job that he was
in line to get. The assumption was he was going
to get the Tennessee Titans job. And then they talked
to Robert Salah, talked the socks off the front office,
and so Sala's now the coach, and so Naggi's scrambling
(28:42):
to find a job. This comes amid reports recently claiming
that Philadelphia has a problem that coach Nick Siriani is
having legitimate issues. When Howie Roseman filling the Eagles offensive
coordinator vacancy. Now, the reporting claimed it's an unappealing job
to candidate due to the intense pressure of coaching in Philadelphia.
(29:05):
So I'd like to address that the question do you
buy or sell? Do you buy or sell the Eagles
offensive coordinator job being unattractive? Right, is not attractive at all, unappealing,
whatever word you want to use. So this is to me,
it's not a coaching search. It's a game of who's
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left at this particular point. So I am buying the
fact that the job is unattractive. Think of it like
Quasimodo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. That being said,
I do not buy the pressure part of it. I
think that is a load of hot poo poo is
what I think. Don't give me the Philadelphia is a
hard place to coach garbage. If you're a coach, it
(29:46):
doesn't matter. Like the Mallard diagnoses, I believe the reason
the Eagles are having problems getting that job filled it's
the JH factor. What is the JH factor? It's Jalen Hurts. Yes,
he's a two hundred and fifty five million dollar quarterback.
He's also the platypuss in the room.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Is what he is.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Jalen Hurts for all the good things that he does,
like the tushy push, the leadership, the quotes. It's like
back in the day you used to have these calendars
with motivational quotes.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
He's liked that.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Jalen Hurts is the conductor of the Eagles offense, but
he's the conductor who cannot read the music sheet. He
only knows a few notes. He's really good at those notes,
but he only knows a few notes. He's the star
of the Philly Pops. However, he cannot hit the high notes.
That's a problem. You want a deep ball, it's a
It's a total eclipse, lunar eclipse, rare dark and leaves
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everyone staring at the sky wondering where the light went.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
And then you've got Nick Sirianni, the.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Rock paper scissors guy who's presiding over the three ring
circus in Philadelphia, and the tents on fire.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
There's no water. It's organizational instability.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's not because of the pressure though, it's this is
a Sirianni special where you change coordinators. You got to
have someone to blame. You always blame the offensive coordinator.
They changed coordinators in Philadelphia, as we talked about when
Jalen hurts at the end of the Eagles season, they
got rid.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Of the offensive winners.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Like they change coordinators more than a lot of us
change socks. And you're not an offensive coordinator in Philadelphia.
You're a human shield. So the coach can blame someone
and the quarterback can blame someone when they fail at
their job.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
And it's like, do you really want to pilot.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
A plane when the engines are sputtering and there's no
mechanic to fix it and the pilot is busy there
arguing with the flight attendant and you're the assistant pilot
and you're like, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You're the co pilot And so.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, the other thing, you're gonna get good money, so
you take the job. It's attempt job, so you don't
want to really lock in. You gotta rent, maybe do
a Verbo or something like that Airbnb it buy a
place because you're not going to be there that long.
And then you take the bag of money and you
move on down the yellow brick road somewhere else and
get another coaching job down the line.
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Speaker 3 (32:13):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we degree.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
This is one big bent gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Cooelo, a Steelers insider, gave his thoughts on Aaron Rodgers
future Tuesday, saying he believes there's a forty percent chance
he retires, thirty five percent chance he plays for the Vikings,
and a twenty five percent shot that he's back with
the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Ben, what do you think about those odds?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
No, he's not going back to the Steelers. I think
that door has closed with Tomlin being out there.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I think there's a forty percent chance he does podcast
with Joe Rogan. There's a thirty percent chance he plays.
I don't know the Colts they need a quarterback that
it seems like Daniel Jones gonna be out for a while.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
What about Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If Mahomes isn't ready to go at the beginning of
the year, there's options.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
If he wants to play, someone will give him a job.
I don't think he's gonna retire though, he just wants
to keep playing. Next.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
With Miami losing to Indiana, Carson Beck now turns his
attention to preparing for the NFL Draft, Ben, what do
you think Beck's NFL future will be?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
He has a chance to be on a practice squad
in the NFL. I don't think. It didn't look like
a great NFL player to me. I wasn't impressed.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Next, it was supported earlier this week that the Knicks
have discussed a Karl Anthony Towns trade with the Grizzlies,
Magic and Hornets, among others. Ben, do you think the
Knicks move Towns before the deadline?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Well? They should.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I know, they beat the Knicks, or the Knicks beat
the Nets by like fifty something points in.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
A blowout and all that. But Carl, every time I
watched Carl Any Towns, I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Like, boy, this guy just he annoys people. He does
things that cause you to lose when even if you're
a good player.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
He's a really good player. He's just there's something a
little off with Carl Anthony. Tech.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
If they can get somebody to take him, absolutely unload
Carl Anthony.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
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It's now time for time for Horry Horry honey. Wait
ask that Twitter said this your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Now in a way we go it is ask Ben,
your questions are answers. We did not take a force
and buggy to get here, but we passed the microphone
over to me who dow loop for the reading of
the questions.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
As we understand.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question for
you or no if this is for all of us.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Okay, Freddie wants to know.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Hi, Freddy, if you could switch bodies with someone, who
would it be?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let see switch bodies with someone? Because I need a
time machine.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
And I would like to go back and I want
to be.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Babe Ruth with the Yankees playing for the Yankees is
what I would like to do. I think that would
be fun back in the day, although they didn't actually
have a lot of the modern stuff, so I don't
know that i'd love that, but that would be kind
of cool to be the bambino.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
What about you, Lorraine?
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Oh, you know I'm sexy enough.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I'll say just how I.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Am thank you very much. Lore.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Look at that humble bragg by lorraina cool elop.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
So there's an important like thing that I need to
know here. If it's if it's temporary or if it's permanent.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
So well, if it's permanent, you just go to like
a toddler and then you just start over it.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
If it's if it's permanent, I'd probably choose like you know, prime,
like twenty something year old lebron.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
If it's temporary, I'm choosing Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Wow, there's a lot there. Cool. You want to share,
you want to Wow.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I wonder what you would do for that time.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Period, Okay, a lot of you know, introspection. All right,
Fami would like to know.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Hi, Fami, I've met Fammi. FAMMI made these great bumper stickers,
which is just wonderful.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
When was the last time you watched a movie or
a show or anything on DVD or VHS.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
He's probably around twenty fifteen, been eleven years or so
something along those lines.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's been at least a decade. What about you?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Lreeda how funny.
Speaker 9 (36:38):
A couple of months back, I went to my friend's
house down in San Diego and his friend, like his
parents don't do the whole big TV with the downloading stuff.
They had a full bookcase of DVDs to choose from,
and they're like, it's your since you're here just for
the weekend, you get to pick up movie. And I'm
looking and I'm like, wow, it's like the Blockbuster of homes.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
They don't make do They don't make DVDs for the
movies today they have.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Come out right no, no, yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Okay, so it's all they don't. It's just they don't
make DVDs anymore.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
I don't think who's buying them.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
I think they do.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Who's buying them?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
What's the d Let me look this up all we ask.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
There might be some countries that buy them, but not here.
I've not seen DVDs when I go to the store.
What about you?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Cool?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
I believe the last movie that I've watched was, uh,
it was The Dark Night on Blu ray.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
So I don't know how long ago that was, but
it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Well, I remember my parents were being gone for a while,
but they had so many VHS, tapes and DVD They love.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
They love the hell out of that.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
They do still make them for popular releases.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Okay, probably not many. Next next ask man your questions
are answer.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
This next question is from ferg Dog High for dog.
He wants to know will you.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Still eat stuff from your fridge if they're past the
best by date?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
This is a big problem in the Malor mansion because
my wife will throw stuff away immediately. And I always say,
you gotta do the smell and the you gotta do
the smell and the eyeball test, because that's just a
guestimation those expiration dates. Sometimes food expires before the expiration date,
and sometimes.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
It's way after.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
She's gotta like smell it and eyeball it. But she's
immediately throwing stuff away.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
What are you doing? You're wasting her money? And so yeah,
we argue about that. What about you rain.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Yeah, I don't open my fridge very much, and if
it does have an passpoint expiration date, I'm not touching it,
even like milk. I'm like, I'm not if it says
best Buy, like, no, I'm not, I'm gonna open it.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I'll eat stuff way after it just smell it.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
If it smells bad, if you see mold on it, obviously,
don't eat it.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
I did eat. Oh this is bad though. Oh yeah,
I should tell I should get us on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
But we had some Hawaiian rolls that were laying around,
you know, and they looked fine through the little plastic thing,
and so I grabbed one and ate it and there
was covered in mold digusting.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
My dad used to keep like blocks of cheddar cheese
in the fridge and as they molded, he would just
continually cut the mold off and serve us the cheese underneath.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
There are some foods that you can do that with,
and then there's others that you can't because.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Like the the mold will go through the whole thing
or it sticks to it. You have to like look
it up.
Speaker 7 (39:25):
But I'm like you, Ben, I will you just gotta
you gotta smell, you gotta look at it and make
the determination from there because it you know, like you
buy the oor wheat loaves of bread, those last way
past the date that they have on there.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yeah, exactly. And there's ways you can bring food back.
Put it in the microwave for a little bit, or
air fryer or whatever. It'll come back to life. Yeah,
kind of got on the bats.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
What's next, Lady Sideburns would like to know.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
My favorite lady, Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Have you ever been violently bitten by an animal that
did not belong to.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
You, like a dog or something like that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I did get bit by dog, but it wasn't like violin,
so I didn't really count when I was a kid,
What about you, Lrena?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
There was this one dog when I was at a
campground and he had three legs, and I thought he'd
be the one I should go pet because I don't
want him because he only got three legs. I went
up to go pet him and they tried to bite
me and I never tried to pet another dog again.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
That's not a nice dog. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I have been bitten by a snake, but that's that's
about it.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
That seems kind of like what kind of snake?
Speaker 5 (40:23):
It was an acting snake. It was on during during
a movie shoot.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Oh wow, get a good lawsuit on that, Britney Spears
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Speaker 4 (02:25):
Just add water and you're off to the races.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So the post mortem on the whacking heard round the NFL.
They dropped the guillotine on you if you're Sean McDermott,
HyG on and that led to a hum dinger of
a day, a hum dinger of the day.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You can't handle the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Didn't see or hear about this, perhaps not. We taken
out of Western New York, where Bill's owner Terry Pegoula
is the talk of the town in the NFL, as
he did the thing that not many people do at
the time.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
They don't normally do it. So again, another.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Rich guy, aristocrat owns the Buffalo Bills, and he got
up on the podium with GM Brandon Bean and they
teamed up to deliver what can only be called a
hummed dinger of a news commerce to try to explain
why they fired head coach Sean McDermott.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And you'd say, pretty easy, pretty.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Easy to say, why you fired the guy because he
kept joking in the playoffs. But it was much deeper
than that. It was much deeper than that. They didn't
just explain the coaching change. They took a ride on
the wild side, and I love it so Pagola, I'll
give you some of the hits. It there was a lie,
but I'll give you some of this, Pagola said. The
owner of the Bill said he fired Sean McDermott because
(03:39):
he felt the team hit the proverbial playoff wall after
seven straight trips to the playoffs without appearing in the
Super Bowl. Here is just to prove I'm not lying.
Here is Pegoula commenting on what I just said. Just
to prove I'm not a liar.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Take a list.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
My decision to bring in a new coach was based
on the results of our game in Denver. I know
we can do better, and I know we will get better.
I did not fire a coach based on a bad
officiating decision. If I can take you into that locker room,
I felt like we hit the proverbial playoff wall, year
(04:18):
after year, thirteen seconds, missfield goals, the catch I just
sensed in that locker room, like, where do we go
from here?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wait, fire the coach. Come on, it's obvious fire the coach,
all right. So that was a big one, essentially said
the tone I got.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I watched this thing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It happened while I was sleeping that I watched it
on the YouTube, and it sounded like he just walked
any cyberyone upset, and so it's like, I'll fire.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
The coach, all right. So then we get to the
even better stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So the owner of the Bills, this guy, Terry Pagola,
He also talked about Keon Coleman. Now, this is a
big local issue in Buffalo because Coleman's not only a
wide receiver. The guy sucks, right, he's terrible. I think
his second round pick. The guy can't play, so everyone
knows the guy. Guys are so Pagola. This was actually
Brandon being the GM who was asked about Keon Coleman
(05:16):
the selection. What went into all of that? And Pogola
actually stepped in the owner of the Buffalo Bills to
answer the question, take a listen.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Yeah, can I interrupt, I'll address the Keon situation. The
coaching staff pushed to draft Kon. I'm not saying Brandon
wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice.
That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice
of his coaching staff who felt strongly about the player.
(05:51):
And he's taken, for some reason, heat over it and
not saying a word about it. But I'm here to
tell you the true story.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, I'm sure you are yes, all right, So there
you go. He said, Ah, it's the coaches. The owner
of the Bill said, it's the coaches. It's not my buddy,
My buddy Brandon Bean who got promoted. All right, so
that is a good jumping off point. Lot's unpacked. The
Bill's owner is getting absolutely cooked for this. It's been
(06:22):
called just one of the most embarrassing things. The guy
has lost it. Al Davis had some of these back
in the day when he was obviously dead.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Now own the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So let us discuss the question Terry Pegoula getting killed
for what's being called a disaster class news conference in Buffalo.
People are saying he has damaged the Bill's brand?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So I've got director's cut, Mazzarella, sticks, and anchorman, and
we will combine all of these things together. And we
were going to make a trip over Niagara Falls, because
this felt like a trip over Niagara Phone.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It was pretty good. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I woke up to a bunch of text messages some people,
he did you see what the the Bill's owned to do?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
What do you do? You know?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I was like, I was kind of half half sleeping still,
and I picked up my phone. Oh my god, what
I wanted? Something good must have happened. And then yep, yep,
pretty good, pretty good. All right, So my first thought
on this to answer the question.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You know, people are saying that the Bill's brand has
been damaged. Is that how you see it? So the
answer is no.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Everyone who's clutching their pearls here and letting out a
primal screen because Terry Pagoula went off script.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh my god, the older talked. He said the thing
that you're.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Not supposed I mean, come on, listen, please, This didn't
damage the buff of the Bill's brain. In fact, I'll
be the contrarian here behind the microphone, and I will
say that this made it more compelling, like this is
must see TV, must hear radio. We finally got the
director's cut, not the Disney edit, not filtered. This was
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classic old guy philipbuster. We all hope to get old
enough so we just don't give an f anymore. You
get to a certain age, and you see this all
the time, you go out the restaurants or whatever, the
old guy that just doesn't give a crap, right and
just goes for it and says whatever the things that
polite society you're not supposed to say. You say when
you get to a certain age, because you figure, hey,
I got unlimited time left. I'm gonna enjoy myself. So
(08:23):
Terry Pegoula was passionately defending the general manager of the
Buffalo Bills, this guy, Brandon Bean.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
As you heard there like a.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Proud dad at a little league game. My boy did
not want that draft pick. He did not want that turd,
did not want it. Meanwhile, the kids standing out in
the outfield, that's Keon Coleman out there catching strays like
it's duck season. And Coleman in the middle seat on
a cross country flight. Elbows on both sides, no arm reds,
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no leg room, nowhere to go.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You are trapped. You are trapped, and.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The owner is saying the owner of the Bills say yeah,
the coaches want the jam says nothing, of course, and
then the player's stuck holding the bag. Of course he
should hold his duffel bag because there's no way he
comes back to the Bills.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's it, And it's not that he didn't earn it.
Keon Coleman was not good at his job. He was
a healthy scratch. There was some behind the scenes issues
there multiple games, as I remember.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
So this is not a brand damage.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Though I wouldn't go that far. I think of it
like the old Mad TV back in the day. If
you remember that dysfunction junction, how do you function? It's
compelling dysfunction. That's the Bills, baby, and hey, it's good,
it's great people. Oh, the Bill's mafia. The fan base
is upset one. They sure they're upset because they keep
losing in the playoffs and they like McDermott. And they'll
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get over it once September comes around. They'll pick somebody
new in the draft and they'll hire a coach. We'll
say all the right and bull crap, and then everyone
will be back on the band and we get back
to September. Now, page two. Staying with the Bills, though,
so the questionaire, the owner Terry Pagool has said that
he's not going to tell the next Bill's coach it's
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super Bowl or bust, whoever that might be. They haven't
replaced Sean McDermott. But the owner is like, well, I'm
not gonna say it's super Bowl or bus. So the
question is why not?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Why not? All right?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And my response would be because some things in life
don't need to be said.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's kind of like when you get.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
On an airplane, you know, you don't tell the pilot, hey,
try not to crash the plane.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I mean, you don't need to say that, right, if.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You're going into the operating room, you don't tell the
search and try to get the right kidney.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Please.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You know, you don't know it's implied. This isn't a
starter job.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That we're not talking about going to Ikea and buying
a bookshelf and you're missing half the screws and the
Allen ranches bent and you're like, ah, crap, this thing
is already built. It's already built that The bills are
a frozen food delicacy.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Think about it like you're to Walmart and you got every.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Possible frozen food you could want, right, and so you
go through there. You look, they got the frozen vegetables.
You don't want to get a part of that. I
got some ice cream, but you know about that. So
then they've got some fries, some potatoes, some onion rings,
things like that. But then you see the mazzarella sticks.
You grab the mozzarella sticks, and that's buffalo buffaloes. The
mozzarella sticks. You don't cook them from scratch, they're already
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pre made. You just toss them in the air fryer
for five minutes. You don't screw that up. Boom, you
got mozzarella sticks. The Bills have an MVP quarterback. Granted
it was kind of a flimsy MVP, but they have
an MVP quarterback. Check that box. The roster that's been
nibbling among the top teams in the NFL for many.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Years now, so check that. And the clock, though, is ticking.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You got about two to four years, depending on how
this thing goes with Josh Allen, before the Bills start
coming due.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
After that, well after that it gets ugly, ugly with
a capitol you. So you're talking about roster.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Rot and bad vibes and all that stuff. So Pagola,
the owner here, he doesn't have to formally announce Super
Bowl or boss doesn't have to say that because it's
already tattooed on the job description. If you read the minutia,
the fine print there, you will see that that is
the way it is now. The last word here. So
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following the Buffalo Bluster, reports came out of Western New
York claiming that a I love this. A source close
to Josh Allen said that the Bills quarterback had faith
in the leadership of the team under the owner Terry
Pagoula and Brandon Bean and will take an active role,
an active role in participating in the upcoming head coaching
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interview process. So that was the way it was reported there,
and more likely than not, is Josh Allen calling one
of his buddies, a beat writer, texting him saying, I
gotta get some message out right now.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Can you help me out? Sure, I'll help you out.
Why not?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Question?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So, Josh Allen, if this report what is accurate? Josh
Allen is said to have quote faith in the Bills leadership.
Is this solid or shaky?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Right? So this is the word I will use.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
On This is diplomacy. This isn't necessarily believe. It's like
a hostage note written with a nice smiley face. You
wrote a little smiley face there on your hostage note.
You're talking about a guy that is the former MVP
who's playing the role in this chapter of the book
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as a statesman.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Because what else on God's green Earth is he gonna do?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Is he gonna act like Bill's mafia and flip a
table and light it on fire in Orchard Park and
jump on it? Is that what he's gonna do place
Josh Allen's camp. Everyone's dealing with this organizational whiplash and
I love it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It's great. I have no skin in the game.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Not in Finally on Bill's Monster, Derek and Felexus and
the other people, we have their Bills fans in that part.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
We love. People in Buffalo love the show. It's great.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But in about five minutes, I'm using Mallard time. But
in about five minutes Bill's Mafia went from chest thumping
a playoff victory over you know, just feeling good, good
playoff vibes. They watched the whole thing tip over like
a drunk guy going out to get the mail on
a walking on his driveway to go down to get
the mail and slips and.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Falls and all that.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
They go from beating Jacksonville late on a wild wild
Card weekend, everyone's feeling all warm and fuzzy.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, it's great.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Then overtime roadkill in Denver late against the Broncos, splat
windshield wipers can't keep up with the mess, and Josh
Allen turns into Anchorman's Ron Burgundy, a glass case of emotion.
The owner walks into the locker room sees tears, panics,
hits the big bed, the big red button hat, a
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giant red button hits that and and wax the coach.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
And then you're like, wow, that has any quickly, right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So if Josh Allen hadn't cried, would you have kept
Sean mcderhatt. I think that that part of it is
it smells like manure to me. And I'll tell you why,
because the issue was they kept losing. It wasn't that
they got emotional. If anything, getting emotional would indicate that
they care about the coach, you would want to keep
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the coach, wouldn't that be the case, Like these guys
really love this guy and they felt bad. The other
thought I had was the players knew that if they
didn't win that game that Sean mcdertt was going to
be fired, and they were bummed out about that. And
it's kind of how I relate. I've worked here at
Fox Sports Radio pretty much my entire adult life. We've
had many people run the company, and every time the
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boss changes, you always get kind.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Of this weird feeling in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You're like, oh, crap, I might have to go work
somewhere else, you know, And and you just keep doing it.
But because every boss has their favorites, right, every boss,
no matter what the job is, whether it's I work
in radio, whatever your job is, well it was got
favorites like parents have favorite kids, you know, just the
way it is. And so you're always like, oh no,
you got a new boss is gonna come in. You're
not gonna like me, Oh crap, what am.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I gonna do? And all that stuff. But it is fascinating,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And then Josh Allen right now, you know the cartoon
bubble in my head. He's saying all the right things
right now, he's the Statesman. He's sweeping up the glass,
he's taping the bumper back on, and really, what choice
does he have? Josh Allen is the Buffalo bills. He
can't demo the building because he's still that's where he works.
You can't demo the building you work in. You're still inside.
(16:31):
And in terms of the word faith, yeah, sure, it
feels less less like belief though, it's more like survival mode.
And it's not really solid.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Ground right now. It's gonna thin ice and we'll see
if the bill's higher. Here.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Some of the names that have been mentioned for that
Buffalo job are not the most exciting names.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
They don't get you all aroused there, they don't.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But man, what a mess. All right? It is the
Ben Malers Show.
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than radio with a camera. I mean, my god, it's
you don't say I did say? And that's not just
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theater of the mind. That's theater the mindless when you
put a camera in there. See radios theater of the
mind when you listen just to the audio, because you
have to imagine things. But when you're watching the camera,
when you're looking at the camera, it's theater the mindless.
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in the business that even though these YouTube videos people
we put them up, most people don't stare at their
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So our lead this hour.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We start out in northern California, fresh off getting their
lunch handed to them by the Seattle Seahawks and a
no show effort. The forty nine ers gave the state
of the team address Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch. The
star of the show would be John Lynch, The GM
there who confirmed that the Niners are about to decommission
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wide receiver Brandon Iuck this offseason. So if you didn't
see this or hear it, maybe not Lynch. He announced
that it's it's time, not quite yet, but in due time,
the winds of change will be blowing.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Let's go to the audio tape. Here's John Lynch. Take
a listen.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
You know the plan in terms of the transaction that
will come in due time. I think it's safe to
say that he that, you know, he's played his last
snap with the Niners. It's unfortunate situation that just went awry,
and I will look long and hard at you know,
what could have been done differently, but sometimes just doesn't
work out.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I think that this was this was a case where
that happened.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, so played his last snap with the Niners.
Will come and du time didn't work out. Blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Now keep in mind, this is
not just your run of the mill roster move like
this is like a lot of what this guy held
in during training camp in twenty twenty four and then
signed a four year contract for one hundred and twenty
million dollars Now you would think with that kind of
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extension you'd be putting on a happy face. This guy, no, no,
this is next level hutzba. He appeared in just seven
games before he had a big bowl of rice crispy
snap crackle pop, and then the injury. And so the
Niners now, finally they could have moved him even though
he didn't play this past season. They if he got
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to another team, he likely would have been able to play.
But they held on to him, and so now they're
gonna trade him or.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Who knows, release him. It's all a good jumping off points.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So let us discuss as you heard the Niners GM
there John Lynch saying that Brandon Ayuck has played his
last snap with the.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Forty nine ers. So where does he end up? Let's
play the speculation game.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
So I've got jim Nance, Mystery Machine, and Philly Pops,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we're
gonna make birthday cake with great frosting and milk is
what we're gonna make. That's what we're doing. Put those
things together. Yum yum to your tomb tumb So a
Brandon Auck is more than just damaged.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Goods. He is completely covered from head to toe with
moles and warts.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
He's got more warning labels on him than a bottle
of draino at this particular point. Now, he did the
Niners dirty. He did the Niners dirty, the whole a
wall thing and all that. And John Lynch, and some
of this is on the Niners. You got to know
your employees, right. They clearly misread the room. They thought
Brandon Ayuk had the fighting spirit, They thought he was
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a competitor. They thought he wanted to win, wanted to
play hard, wanted to do his job. Clearly he wasn't
all of those things. Otherwise you wouldn't be in this
particular situation. And so John Lynch got the Jim Nance
Breakfast special burnt toast is what he got. He got burned, burn,
baby burn. And does he even does the player even
want to play football? Or the question must be asked,
(21:46):
is Brandon Ayuk looking for a team to go to
to bankroll his sabbatical so he can continue to make
a lot of money and do nothing. Now Brandon Iok
becomes the ultimate high end reclamation project. A lot of
people in the NFL that believe in the Father Flannagan mantra,
but he's got flashing warning labels that are that they're
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popping up everywhere. However, again I go back to the
NFL mantra, talent trumps all. It's the never give up
on talent thesis that the NFL runs by, and so
spinning the malor wheel of speculation for Brandon ayuk round
and round and round and round, big money, big money,
No Whomy's stop. All right, So you've got the Steelers,
(22:31):
the Bills, and the Chiefs all lined up. It's like
speed dating at a dive bar, is what it is
at two in the morning before the bar closed. There's
no risk it, no biscuit. That was Bruce Arian's line
from back of the day. All of those teams, the Steelers, Bills,
and Chiefs obviously pop up on the malar wheel of speculation.
They are devoid of elite level playmakers at the wide
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receiver position. All of them are in the American Football Conference,
and all of them are at the point now where
they'd be willing to take a player who's tarnished and
he's got cooties like Brandon Aya because they're desperate, right,
They're desperate, and so they need the player, they need
a talent upgrade. You're willing to overlook things like people
that don't want to do their job.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Meanwhile, we stay in the Bay Area where forty nine
Ers GM. John Lynch also confirmed during the end of
season news conference that the team is going to investigate
the viral TikTok theory linking electromagnetic fields from a nearby
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electrical substation to the persistent injury problems. You might remember
in a previous episode we discussed this very topic.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And we pointed out that the science.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
On this has been done over the years because there's
people that just live near these substations and they think
that something's happening, and so they studied it and they
determined that they're and who knows whether you believe this
or not, but they determined that there was nothing there
there anyway, here's Lynch talking about the forty nine ers
investigating take a list.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
You have to look into everything, and so our guys
have been We've been reaching out to anyone and everyone
to see does a study exist rather than a guy
sticking an apparatus underneath the fence and by coming up
with a number that I have no idea what that means.
That's what we know exists. We've heard that debunked, you know,
So yes, we will look into it. We have and
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we'll always be cognizant of things. I know that a
lot of games have been won at this facility, you know,
since it opened. But yeah, we aren't going to turn
a blind eye. We'll look into everything.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Okay, So the question how likely, just between us, how
likely are the forty nine ers to find in a
smoking gun an injury smoking gun with the electromagnetic field conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
It popped up on social media.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So in the cartoon bubble above my head, on the
right side of my head, right you can't see because
it's radio, but above my head, John Lynch is out
there driving the mystery machine. He's sniffing around and right
around the electromagnetic field conspiracy like Scooby Dooby doo retrow.
(25:12):
Somebody get that man some Scooby snacks right now. Next,
they're gonna blame what. They're gonna blame our friend Andrea
the astrology insider. They're gonna say the reason the forty
nine ers keep getting hurt is because mercury is in retrograde.
They're gonna investigate that and then maybe after that the
moon phase pulled a hamstring.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Or something like that. This is a.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
First class ticket to Bakersville, is what this is. You've
got the low frequency EMF turning ligaments into what pulled pork?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Is that what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And so okay, delicious, put some barbecue sauce on. It
showed me the science. Of course, there is no science
to back this up. Zero zilch, not a bupkus, whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Word you want to eat.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's kind of like blaming the popcorn burning because of
the Wi Fi football has been a demolition derby. It's
car crashes with shoulder pads, and there's also this thing
called randomness and variance involved in it. And say, well
this wasn't great and we've had some injuries. That's the
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way the cookie crumbles. And people are looking desperately for
both engagement and to try to find a fall guy,
because you got to have a fall guy.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Very important to have a fall guy. So, like, I
know what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's not that these guys just are injury prone or
it's just bad luck. It's the substation man. Yeah, that's
the ticket, it's the substantion. Well, good luck here's the
other problem with this. Now I've pointed out that there's
some things that have been done over the year, peer
reviewed studies that have said that this.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Is not true.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
However, even if you think there is something there, Even
if there is something, don't you believe that the Niners
would be better off bearing it? Like Jimmy hoff if
you know who that is back in the day, this
would be Pandora's box by the bay Let's workshop.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
This right, what's in the box? What do you think
this means?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So if the Niners came out and said, you know what,
the players were right. The players were absolutely right. And
these gamma rays, that the what you might call it's
coming from the do hickey and it's causing these injuries.
So you open that box up and you have billboard
lawyers circling like seagulls when you drop a French fry
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at the beach, right, they will be everywhere there is
There is no there there, And if there is a
there there, you can't admit it because then then you've
got some issues like that. Not the gamma ray thing,
not the Tampa Bay ray thing. It's just it's bad luck.
It's a violent sport. And then but you can put
the X Files music on if you want. If you're
into the X files, you know that'll show back in
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the day you put that.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
On, all right?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now, last word to fill out Alfia, we go where
the Eagles are having no luck getting an offensive coordinator
despite winning a Super Bowl a couple of years ago
and being a consistent playoff team. We are told the
Eagles have interviewed now former Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Naggi,
who was let go by Andy Reid for the offensive
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coordinator vacancy in Philadelphia. Now Naggy exploring any kind of
a job he can get, as Andy Reid's replaced him
with Eric b Enemy and the job that he was
in line to get. The assumption was he was going
to get the Tennessee Titans job. And then they talked
to Robert Salah, talked the socks off the front office,
and so Sala's now the coach, and so Naggi's scrambling
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to find a job. This comes amid reports recently claiming
that Philadelphia has a problem that coach Nick Siriani is
having legitimate issues. When Howie Roseman filling the Eagles offensive
coordinator vacancy. Now, the reporting claimed it's an unappealing job
to candidate due to the intense pressure of coaching in Philadelphia.
(29:05):
So I'd like to address that the question do you
buy or sell? Do you buy or sell the Eagles
offensive coordinator job being unattractive? Right, is not attractive at all, unappealing,
whatever word you want to use. So this is to me,
it's not a coaching search. It's a game of who's
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left at this particular point. So I am buying the
fact that the job is unattractive. Think of it like
Quasimodo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. That being said,
I do not buy the pressure part of it. I
think that is a load of hot poo poo is
what I think. Don't give me the Philadelphia is a
hard place to coach garbage. If you're a coach, it
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doesn't matter. Like the Mallard diagnoses, I believe the reason
the Eagles are having problems getting that job filled it's
the JH factor. What is the JH factor? It's Jalen Hurts. Yes,
he's a two hundred and fifty five million dollar quarterback.
He's also the platypuss in the room.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Is what he is.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Jalen Hurts for all the good things that he does,
like the tushy push, the leadership, the quotes. It's like
back in the day you used to have these calendars
with motivational quotes.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
He's liked that.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Jalen Hurts is the conductor of the Eagles offense, but
he's the conductor who cannot read the music sheet. He
only knows a few notes. He's really good at those notes,
but he only knows a few notes. He's the star
of the Philly Pops. However, he cannot hit the high notes.
That's a problem. You want a deep ball, it's a
It's a total eclipse, lunar eclipse, rare dark and leaves
(30:38):
everyone staring at the sky wondering where the light went.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
And then you've got Nick Sirianni, the.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Rock paper scissors guy who's presiding over the three ring
circus in Philadelphia, and the tents on fire.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
There's no water. It's organizational instability.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's not because of the pressure though, it's this is
a Sirianni special where you change coordinators. You got to
have someone to blame. You always blame the offensive coordinator.
They changed coordinators in Philadelphia, as we talked about when
Jalen hurts at the end of the Eagles season, they
got rid.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Of the offensive winners.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Like they change coordinators more than a lot of us
change socks. And you're not an offensive coordinator in Philadelphia.
You're a human shield. So the coach can blame someone
and the quarterback can blame someone when they fail at
their job.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
And it's like, do you really want to pilot.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
A plane when the engines are sputtering and there's no
mechanic to fix it and the pilot is busy there
arguing with the flight attendant and you're the assistant pilot
and you're like, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You're the co pilot And so.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, the other thing, you're gonna get good money, so
you take the job. It's attempt job, so you don't
want to really lock in. You gotta rent, maybe do
a Verbo or something like that Airbnb it buy a
place because you're not going to be there that long.
And then you take the bag of money and you
move on down the yellow brick road somewhere else and
get another coaching job down the line.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we degree.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
This is one big bent gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Cooelo, a Steelers insider, gave his thoughts on Aaron Rodgers
future Tuesday, saying he believes there's a forty percent chance
he retires, thirty five percent chance he plays for the Vikings,
and a twenty five percent shot that he's back with
the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Ben, what do you think about those odds?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
No, he's not going back to the Steelers. I think
that door has closed with Tomlin being out there.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I think there's a forty percent chance he does podcast
with Joe Rogan. There's a thirty percent chance he plays.
I don't know the Colts they need a quarterback that
it seems like Daniel Jones gonna be out for a while.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
What about Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If Mahomes isn't ready to go at the beginning of
the year, there's options.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
If he wants to play, someone will give him a job.
I don't think he's gonna retire though, he just wants
to keep playing. Next.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
With Miami losing to Indiana, Carson Beck now turns his
attention to preparing for the NFL Draft, Ben, what do
you think Beck's NFL future will be?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
He has a chance to be on a practice squad
in the NFL. I don't think. It didn't look like
a great NFL player to me. I wasn't impressed.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Next, it was supported earlier this week that the Knicks
have discussed a Karl Anthony Towns trade with the Grizzlies,
Magic and Hornets, among others. Ben, do you think the
Knicks move Towns before the deadline?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Well? They should.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I know, they beat the Knicks, or the Knicks beat
the Nets by like fifty something points in.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
A blowout and all that. But Carl, every time I
watched Carl Any Towns, I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Like, boy, this guy just he annoys people. He does
things that cause you to lose when even if you're
a good player.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
He's a really good player. He's just there's something a
little off with Carl Anthony. Tech.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
If they can get somebody to take him, absolutely unload
Carl Anthony.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
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Speaker 4 (34:17):
It's now time for time for Horry Horry honey. Wait
ask that Twitter said this your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Now in a way we go it is ask Ben,
your questions are answers. We did not take a force
and buggy to get here, but we passed the microphone
over to me who dow loop for the reading of
the questions.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
As we understand.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question for
you or no if this is for all of us.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Okay, Freddie wants to know.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Hi, Freddy, if you could switch bodies with someone, who
would it be?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let see switch bodies with someone? Because I need a
time machine.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
And I would like to go back and I want
to be.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Babe Ruth with the Yankees playing for the Yankees is
what I would like to do. I think that would
be fun back in the day, although they didn't actually
have a lot of the modern stuff, so I don't
know that i'd love that, but that would be kind
of cool to be the bambino.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
What about you, Lorraine?
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Oh, you know I'm sexy enough.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I'll say just how I.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Am thank you very much. Lore.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Look at that humble bragg by lorraina cool elop.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
So there's an important like thing that I need to
know here. If it's if it's temporary or if it's permanent.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
So well, if it's permanent, you just go to like
a toddler and then you just start over it.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
If it's if it's permanent, I'd probably choose like you know, prime,
like twenty something year old lebron.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
If it's temporary, I'm choosing Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Wow, there's a lot there. Cool. You want to share,
you want to Wow.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I wonder what you would do for that time.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Period, Okay, a lot of you know, introspection. All right,
Fami would like to know.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Hi, Fami, I've met Fammi. FAMMI made these great bumper stickers,
which is just wonderful.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
When was the last time you watched a movie or
a show or anything on DVD or VHS.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
He's probably around twenty fifteen, been eleven years or so
something along those lines.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's been at least a decade. What about you?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Lreeda how funny.
Speaker 9 (36:38):
A couple of months back, I went to my friend's
house down in San Diego and his friend, like his
parents don't do the whole big TV with the downloading stuff.
They had a full bookcase of DVDs to choose from,
and they're like, it's your since you're here just for
the weekend, you get to pick up movie. And I'm
looking and I'm like, wow, it's like the Blockbuster of homes.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
They don't make do They don't make DVDs for the
movies today they have.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Come out right no, no, yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Okay, so it's all they don't. It's just they don't
make DVDs anymore.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
I don't think who's buying them.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
I think they do.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Who's buying them?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
What's the d Let me look this up all we ask.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
There might be some countries that buy them, but not here.
I've not seen DVDs when I go to the store.
What about you?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Cool?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
I believe the last movie that I've watched was, uh,
it was The Dark Night on Blu ray.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
So I don't know how long ago that was, but
it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Well, I remember my parents were being gone for a while,
but they had so many VHS, tapes and DVD They love.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
They love the hell out of that.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
They do still make them for popular releases.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Okay, probably not many. Next next ask man your questions
are answer.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
This next question is from ferg Dog High for dog.
He wants to know will you.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Still eat stuff from your fridge if they're past the
best by date?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
This is a big problem in the Malor mansion because
my wife will throw stuff away immediately. And I always say,
you gotta do the smell and the you gotta do
the smell and the eyeball test, because that's just a
guestimation those expiration dates. Sometimes food expires before the expiration date,
and sometimes.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
It's way after.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
She's gotta like smell it and eyeball it. But she's
immediately throwing stuff away.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
What are you doing? You're wasting her money? And so yeah,
we argue about that. What about you rain.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Yeah, I don't open my fridge very much, and if
it does have an passpoint expiration date, I'm not touching it,
even like milk. I'm like, I'm not if it says
best Buy, like, no, I'm not, I'm gonna open it.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I'll eat stuff way after it just smell it.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
If it smells bad, if you see mold on it, obviously,
don't eat it.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
I did eat. Oh this is bad though. Oh yeah,
I should tell I should get us on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
But we had some Hawaiian rolls that were laying around,
you know, and they looked fine through the little plastic thing,
and so I grabbed one and ate it and there
was covered in mold digusting.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
My dad used to keep like blocks of cheddar cheese
in the fridge and as they molded, he would just
continually cut the mold off and serve us the cheese underneath.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
There are some foods that you can do that with,
and then there's others that you can't because.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Like the the mold will go through the whole thing
or it sticks to it. You have to like look
it up.
Speaker 7 (39:25):
But I'm like you, Ben, I will you just gotta
you gotta smell, you gotta look at it and make
the determination from there because it you know, like you
buy the oor wheat loaves of bread, those last way
past the date that they have on there.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yeah, exactly. And there's ways you can bring food back.
Put it in the microwave for a little bit, or
air fryer or whatever. It'll come back to life. Yeah,
kind of got on the bats.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
What's next, Lady Sideburns would like to know.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
My favorite lady, Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Have you ever been violently bitten by an animal that
did not belong to.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
You, like a dog or something like that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I did get bit by dog, but it wasn't like violin,
so I didn't really count when I was a kid,
What about you, Lrena?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
There was this one dog when I was at a
campground and he had three legs, and I thought he'd
be the one I should go pet because I don't
want him because he only got three legs. I went
up to go pet him and they tried to bite
me and I never tried to pet another dog again.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
That's not a nice dog. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I have been bitten by a snake, but that's that's
about it.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
That seems kind of like what kind of snake?
Speaker 5 (40:23):
It was an acting snake. It was on during during
a movie shoot.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Oh wow, get a good lawsuit on that, Britney Spears
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